by David Gumpert | Aug 20, 2017 | What's New |
This post has been edited since it first went up, with material removed and added. The conclusion remains unchanged. A few months ago, I watched a new documentary in Hanover, NH, the home of Dartmouth College, about how scientists from its medical school helped launch...
by David Gumpert | Aug 11, 2017 | What's New |
At a memorial gathering in Connecticut for Ron Schmid last week at his farm home in Watertown, there were lots of fond remembrances by his friends, relatives, and former patients. But there was also lots of anger about the Green Pasture fermented cod liver oil that...
by David Gumpert | Aug 8, 2017 | What's New |
There’s a new foodie movie just out, and I have to admit, it really had me going. As in, “Maybe I should think seriously about shifting to a totally vegan diet.” A few friends and family had highly recommended the movie, “What the Health”. The fact that it’s been...
by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2017 | What's New |
The author, naturopath, and food rights activist Ron Schmid died unexpectedly last Thursday evening. He was 71, and died in his sleep at his farm in Connecticut, apparently of heart failure. Schmid was best known in the food community for his landmark 2003 book, The...
by David Gumpert | Jul 20, 2017 | What's New |
It’s been nearly seven years since I first met farmer Heather Retberg in Maine and learned about her crazy idea for restoring something called “Food Sovereignty” to the small coastal communities where she and her supporters lived. Over the years that followed, Retberg...
by David Gumpert | Jul 13, 2017 | What's New |
I have tried to provide ongoing coverage of Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s seemingly endless legal travails. It is a challenge, though, because of the relentlessness of the government assault. (If you want to look back on some of this blog’s...
by David Gumpert | Jul 3, 2017 | What's New |
The Amish salve maker, Sam Girod, was sentenced last week to six years in federal prison for illegally selling skin salves that are readily available all over the Internet from other makers. He was also hit with three years of probation and a requirement that he repay...
by David Gumpert | Jun 28, 2017 | What's New |
Over the last 15 years, Thomas Cowan has established himself as a hot alternative doc who handles complex health challenges ranging from hyperthyroid conditions to digestive and metabolic problems to cancer. It is this last matter, cancer, that has landed the founding...
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